lostinscapes

“I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Fear is a habit like any other, and habits kill what is essential in ourselves.”
― Rachel Cusk, Second Place

“I want to throw up because we’re supposed to quietly and politely make house in this killing machine called America and pay taxes to support our own slow murder, and I’m amazed that we’re not running amok in the streets and that we can still be capable of gestures of loving after lifetimes of all this.”
― Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

“I’d chosen Brussels because a city whose symbol is a little boy pissing was a city I knew I would like.”
― Eva Baltasar, Permagel